Three Rincon police officers have turned in their badges in recent weeks, and one more will soon.

Officers Rena Brown, Ryan Daily and Jimmy Hollingsworth have all left, and Meagan Zike turned in a two-week notice late last week.

Mayor Ken Lee said Hollingsworth was now working for the Port Wentworth department and Daily returned to Texas.

Zike, Lee said, is moving home to North Carolina.

Zike wrecked a patrol car two weeks ago, racking up more than $6,000 in damages.

Georgia State Patrol reports said she failed to yield while making a U-turn on Ga. 21 at 4 a.m. and was hit by an oncoming vehicle. She wasn’t ticketed.

Why did Brown leave or what are her plans?

I certainly don’t know – and the mayor isn’t talking.

“You’d have to ask her,” Lee said.

What I do know, and surely this is just a coincidence, is that Brown, Daily and Zike all had roles in the allegations against former Police Chief Michael Berry uncovered in the city’s “internal investigation.” Brown’s statements to the city also played a role in the firing of Cpl. Lee Witt.

I’m told Daily is the officer the city said was a target of a murder plot by Berry.

Allegations against Berry are now being investigated by Georgia Peace Officers Standards Council.

POST will eventually vote on whether Berry’s certification as a police officer will be pulled in Georgia.

It’s a serious job, and I don’t think POST investigators will just be using copies of the city’s “findings.”

They’ll dig in and take a hard look, I’m told by law enforcement contacts outside of Effingham County.